Cardamom plant (Elettaria cardamomum): rootstock sprouting leafy and flowering stems, and separate flower. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1847.

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Cardamom seeds are used in medicine and cooking, as a masticatory in Asia

[London (Ave Maria Lane)] : [Whittaker & Co.], [1847]

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour

Matonia Cardamomum

Published description of the plant illustrated and its medicinal uses in : M.A.Burnett, Plantae utiliores ..., London, 1847

Wellcome Collection 23818i

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